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Medieval Liturgy: Prayerbooks and Books of Hours

Library and internet resources about the medieval liturgy.

Overview

Books of Hours
Exhibition Catalogs
Prayer Books

Prayerbooks

The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold by Antione De Schryver
Call Number: ND3380.4.G43 S3713 2008

The "Howard Psalter and Hours," England, ca. 1310-1320.
British Library MS Arundel 83, f. 55v

‘Most illustrious king of kings’. Evidence for Ottonian kingship in the Otto III prayerbook (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 30111) by Sarah Hamilton
Journal of Medieval History 27 (2001): 257-288
Alcuins Gebetbuch für Karl den Grossen : seine Rekonstruktion und seine Stellung in der frühmittelalterlichen Geschichte der libelli precum by Stephan Waldhoff.
Call Number: BV170 .L5513 Bd. 89

Exhibition catalogs

Painted Prayers: the book of hours in medieval and Renaissance art by Roger S. Wieck
Call Number: ND3363.A1 W54 1997
Picturing prayer : the Book of Hours in the Middle Ages
Call Number: ND3363.A1 P53 2006
Mittelalterliche Andachtsbücher : Psalterien, Stundenbücher, Gebetbücher
Call Number: ND3357.A1 M58 1992

Zeugnisse europäischer Frömmigkeit : eine Ausstellung der Badischen und der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek zum 91. Deutschen Katholikentag in Karlsruhe 1992 : Katalog zur Ausstellung

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Andachtsbücher des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz : Katalog zur Ausstellung im Schnütgen-Museum by Joachim M. Plotzek
Call Number: ND3363.A1 P4 1987

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Books of Hours

Time Sanctified: the book of hours in Medieval art and life by Roger S. Wieck
Call Number: ND3363.A1 W543 2001
Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400 by Eva Lindqvist Sandgren
Call Number: N25 .F5 v.28

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Book of Hours: a historical survey and commentary by John Harthan
Call Number: ND3363.A1 H37 1977b
The Bedford Hours: the making of a medieval masterpiece by Eberhard Konig
Call Number: ND3363.B37 K6613 2007

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Distribution of Labor: the illuminators of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves and their workshop by Robert G. Calkins
Call Number: ND3363.C3 C34

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Art, identity and devotion in fourteenth-century England : three women and their Books of hours by Kathryn A. Smith
Call Number: ND3363.A1 S55 2003

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
French Books of Hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 by Virginia Reinburg
Call Number: ND3363.A1 R45 2012

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Marking the Hours: English people and their prayers 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
Call Number: BX2080 .D84 2006
"Women and Books of Hours" by Sandra Penketh
Call Number: PN682.W6 W66 1997

In Women and the book : assessing the visual evidence. edited by Lesley Smith and Jane Taylor: 266-282.
The Art of the Book: its place in medieval worship by Margaret M. Manion (Editor); Bernard J. Muir (Editor)
Call Number: BR117 .A78 1998